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Endgame Magic #250: Highlights from the World Rapid Team Championship

by Karsten Müller

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9/25/2023 – In the Endgame Magic Show #250 Karsten Müller analyses endgame highlights from the FIDE World Rapid Team Championship, which took place last month at the Düsseldorf Rheinterrassen. | You can watch the Endgame Magic Show on-demand with a ChessBase Premium account.

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Endgame Magic #250

At the inaugural FIDE World Rapid Team Championship, Indian prodigy Nihal Sarin beat Levon Aronian with white from the following position. Can you figure out the winning idea?

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Karsten Müller Karsten Müller is considered to be one of the greatest endgame experts in the world. His books on the endgame - among them "Fundamentals of Chess Endings", co-authored with Frank Lamprecht, that helped to improve Magnus Carlsen's endgame knowledge - and his endgame columns for the ChessCafe website and the ChessBase Magazine helped to establish and to confirm this reputation. Karsten's Fritztrainer DVDs on the endgame are bestsellers. The mathematician with a PhD lives in Hamburg, and for more than 25 years he has been scoring points for the Hamburger Schachklub (HSK) in the Bundesliga.

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